Chapter 3505 Bloody Battle Breakthrough
After all, Liu Shi was a civil servant and had never been in a battle. He was frightened by today's bloody battle. Facing the entire warehouse of gunpowder, he had already lost his previous calmness and reserve. He pulled Cen Changqian and trotted out.
Although Cen Changqian was bold and courageous, she was still young and inexperienced, so she felt a little guilty at this time. The two of them were still running at a trot at the beginning, but thinking about the powerful powder keg behind them, they couldn't help but feel chills on their backs, and they ran faster and faster. , and in the end, he almost sprinted out of the warehouse door...
Panting, he looked back at the towering and solid warehouse. The two looked at each other and quickly turned around to join the others.
Cen Changqian held a musket in her hand and looked around the crowd. She saw that her classmates, who had been so heroic in the past, were now scarred and exhausted. She was moved in her heart and said loudly: "Although we come from all over the world, we have all bathed in the emperor's grace. I swear allegiance to Your Majesty, to the Tang Dynasty, and to study hard, and become the pillar of the empire in the future! However, now that the rebels are raging, they want to destabilize the country and overthrow the country. I, the emperor's disciples, should set things right and fight to the death!"
“Don’t turn your heels until you die!”
"Allegiance to Your Majesty!"
All the students were in high spirits and their morale was high.
After all, in this era where imperial power is supreme, loyalty to the emperor means loyalty to the country. These proud men from all over the world regard themselves as disciples of the Emperor and regard them as the supreme honor. At this moment, in order to maintain the orthodoxy of imperial power, they are willing to fight to the death!
In fact, no matter in any age, the most susceptible to incitement are young people who have knowledge, ideals, and passion, and are willing to shed their lives and blood for the justice they yearn for!
Even if you die, you will have no regrets.
Cen Changqian paused, and was very satisfied with the students' reaction, and continued: "Although we are not afraid of death, we cannot sacrifice this useful life in vain. I have made arrangements in the warehouse, and in an hour This will ignite all the gunpowder, so wait a moment I also ask you to break out with me! However, we are classmates and have the friendship of classmates. At this critical moment, we should share weal and woe, life and death! If any classmate is injured, the people around him must help each other. Abandon, don’t give up! ”
"Don't abandon! Don't give up!"
They are all passionate young people, and their blood is pumping with just a few words from Cen Changqian!
Seeing that her morale was ready, Cen Changqian said loudly: "Very good! Let's break out all the way south. As long as we escape into the mountains and ravines of Zhongnan Mountain, we can escape naturally! Now, let's break out!"
More than a thousand people gathered in one place, and with unified command, they immediately launched a breakout towards the surrounding rebels without hesitation.
Cen Changqian took the lead, holding up his musket while running. Without aiming, he fired a shot at the dark group of rebels ahead. A general in leather armor fell to the ground. The rebels around him were startled and fled. Cen Changqian threw away the musket, drew a horizontal knife from her back, and charged forward with an angry look.
Ouyang Tong and a group of students followed closely behind. First, they fired the last shot of the muskets in their hands. Regardless of whether they hit the target or not, they simply threw away the muskets before they had time to reload, and rushed forward waving their swords.
More than a thousand students fought bravely to be the first, like a tiger descending a mountain, with great momentum!
This sudden breakthrough caught the rebels by surprise. They thought that the outer perimeter of the Foundry Bureau had been breached. Most of these students could only defend the core area of the warehouse and rely on the fortifications to continue resisting until they were exhausted and either killed or captured. , who would have thought that he would launch a charge and break through without fear of death?
When they came to their senses, the distance between the two sides was already only a few tens of feet. They quickly bent their bows, nocked arrows, and fired a round of arrows. Before they had time to fire a second round, more than a thousand students rushed into the formation bravely and started fighting at close range. .
This round of arrows hit many students, but these students were all tenacious and fearless. They endured the pain and cut off the arrow shafts with sharp blades. It would be best if they could take out the arrow clusters. Even if they could not be taken out, they would just leave them in the body and bandage them briefly. He continued to charge under the supervision of his classmates.
People have the desire to follow the herd, so morale in the army is very important. Once a soldier is afraid of fighting, it can easily lead to a collapse of morale. Often one person escapes from the battle, which will cause the entire army to disperse.
On the contrary, in the current heated atmosphere, even those who are usually spoiled, timid and cowardly people will burst out with strong courage, without knowing what fear is, and they will disregard life and death!
Especially after listening to Cen Changqian's speech just now, he put the friendship of classmates in the first place. Everyone worked bravely, fought for the first place, and were even willing to stand up and use their bodies to defend the classmates around them from the enemy's arrows. This kind of bravery The fear of death and the spirit of unity made these more than a thousand students burst out with extremely powerful fighting power, like a sharp sword that penetrated straight into the rebel formation.
If a regular army were to face such a charge by the students, they might be caught off guard due to lack of preparation at first, but then they should react in time, gather from the two wings to the center, compress the formation of the students, and try to cut them off in half. Divide it into two and defeat each one. However, the rebels were a ragtag group of people. Most of them were not even government soldiers. They seriously lacked experience in a battle formation of this scale. They were suddenly rushed by the students and were immediately thrown into disarray.
Another point is that these rebels are just domestic slaves and farmers of various Guanlong families. They are not real rebels after all. They cannot be so vicious and wanton killings. Facing these proud men of heaven who usually need to be looked up to, I was originally afraid, but now I was intimidated by the momentum. I was so frightened that it was difficult to organize an effective offensive to resist the students' breakthrough.
Not to mention that these students not only had knives in their hands, but from time to time the thunderbolts flying out of the hands of the self-taught students fell into the formation, causing the rebels to flip over and disrupt their formation, running around like headless flies. Even the leader of the general Time cannot be constrained.
In fact, even the leader of the generals who was born in Guanlong was shocked by the students' tiger-like momentum going down the mountain. Seeing the students rushing into their own formation like a broken bamboo, the thunder in their hands was thrown around. , every time one is thrown, one will be killed. Several rebel generals couldn't help but gather together, discuss with each other, and decide to open a path and let these students leave.
First of all, each of these students is the proud son of heaven, and almost every one of them represents a family or a force behind him. Although the Guanlong clan is launching a mutiny in order to completely control the power of the court, in the final analysis, it is impossible to have power in the world. Being monopolized by the Guanlong family, in the end we still have to make some compromises with all parties.
If all these students are killed now, then the Guanlong clan and the forces in Jiangnan and Shandong will have a deadly feud that cannot be resolved, laying the foundation for future control of the court.
Furthermore, they don't care whether these students can break out. Their mission is to capture the foundry, seize the muskets, artillery, gunpowder and other firearms in the warehouse, and use them to attack the imperial city. Since these students have already worked hard to break out, why bother? How about trying to stop it with a lot of casualties?
It's better to just let them go and move the firearms in the warehouse...
Several generals were from different clans, and their subordinates commanded the armies of their respective clans. They immediately reached an agreement to gather the rebels, and allowed the students to fight their way straight towards Zhongnan Mountain. They organized the rebels to clear out the foundry first, and then opened the warehouse.
When I saw countless muskets and neatly stacked powder barrels in several warehouses connected together, I was immediately ecstatic!
If so much gunpowder were transported to the Imperial City and ignited, it would probably blow up the entire Imperial City to the sky!
This is a great achievement! In terms of rewards after the fact, it is easy for these generals to be promoted to one level. Maybe they can even get a title...
"Go find some carts to transport gunpowder!"
"Don't mess around, line up!"
"Each one is assigned tasks, some are responsible for transporting gunpowder from the warehouse, and some are responsible for transporting gunpowder to Chang'an City on carts!"
Under the coordination of several generals, more than 10,000 troops gradually restored order, and everyone began to carry the gunpowder in the warehouse.
First of all, naturally, we started with the largest warehouse in the middle. There were almost no other firearms in this warehouse, and they were all gunpowder in wooden barrels. The orderly transportation work began, and the rest of the useless rebels stood guard around the warehouse, bows and swords unsheathed, ready for battle. If those students turned around and suddenly made a surprise attack while everyone was transporting gunpowder, the formation would be disrupted and the losses would be heavy. . (End of chapter)